Power generation using domestically sourced sustainable resources and contributions to forests and local industries

「The measures to be taken by the company to address the identified materialities and create new value by resolving them are as follows.」

「Our group seeks rationality and safety, as required by modern society, from both the use and supply of resources and energy, and aims to achieve both a sustainable global environment and increased corporate value.」

「In addition to promoting active logging operations and contributing to the supply of unused timber to group power plants, we are focusing on external sales and working to improve earnings.」

「Our group's forestry business is promoting active logging operations to offset these changes in procurement conditions and, although it plays a certain role in supplying unused timber to group power plants,」

「In the group's forestry business, we have proactively promoted logging operations to offset these changes in the procurement environment and have played a certain role in supplying unused wood to group power plants, although external outsourcing, loading and unloading, transportation and other operating costs have increased.」

「Our group sells electricity generated from 100% domestically sourced natural woody chips and recycled fuel made from waste wood materials from the construction and civil engineering industries, thereby helping supply clean, reliable, domestically sourced electricity.」

「While prioritizing the use of timber as a construction material, we believe that combining the use of woody fuel required for woody biomass power generation with our forestry business and maintaining this cycle into the future will enable us to contribute to society by supplying genuinely renewable energy.」

「Our group has begun managing forest land and will efficiently secure the profitability of its forestry business, primarily through mechanization.」

「For future fuel supplies for the Shingu Power Plant, we are securing logs, primarily sourced from Wakayama Prefecture, and are progressively working to expand our supplier base. We are also actively pursuing the acquisition of forestland required to advance collaboration with our forestry business.」

「Our group is promoting the revitalization of forest resources in order to maintain stable operations of woody biomass power generation and contribute to regional economic development.」

「We began with the aim of reducing overall consumption by limiting the use of unused timber.」

「The proportion of unused timber used increased with a view to increasing future earnings.」

「The proportion of unused timber used increased with a view to increasing future earnings.」

「We aim to continue reducing greenhouse gas emissions and net imports of primary energy, while achieving harmony between people and the natural environment, by promoting energy conservation and using domestically sourced renewable energy.」

「At each power plant, the utilization rate of unused timber increased compared with the same period of the previous year, and operations proceeded smoothly without problems.」

「At each power plant, the utilization rate of unused timber increased compared with the same period of the previous year, and operations proceeded smoothly without problems.」

「The EF-ON Shirakawa and EF-ON Hita power plants also operated smoothly, with higher utilization rates for unused timber and no operational problems.」

「To contribute to energy creation from environmentally friendly, domestically sourced sustainable resources, we will develop and strengthen employee training and cooperation with local forestry and timber-industry stakeholders, focusing on further improving power plant operating technology, conducting appropriate maintenance and pursuing an optimal fuel mix.」